In the Ruhr valley he found the environmentalist's holy grail and wrote a book about it.
Having survived the Allied bombs, Herne became one of the Ruhr's boom towns after the war.
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The Ruhr has therefore been reinventing itself as a hub for research, energy and logistics.
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The steel and coal industries of the Ruhr slumped in the face of foreign competition.
In response, in January 1923 French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland.
They will be shining their shovels in Poland, South Africa and China, but not in the Ruhr.
He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of the Ruhr and crossed the Rhine River into Nazi Germany.
It might become the city in the Ruhr that caters best to foreigners' needs, by helping, say, young Turks to start businesses.
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The Love Parade was part of the Ruhr's post-industrial coming-out party.
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He was no match for Hannelore Kraft, an electrician's wife from the Ruhr, who has led a minority SPD-Green government in NRW, a traditional SPD stronghold, since 2010.
Jooss, who died in 1979, was the founder in the 1930s of the Folkwang School in the Ruhr city of Essen, before he was forced to flee the Nazis.
Scientists at Imperial College London and the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in Germany, who carried out this latest study, believe their findings may explain why so many children go on to develop these problems.
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For the best examples of this, we have to look to areas like Germany's Duisberg Nord Parc in the Ruhr Valley, or the beautiful green spaces of the Park Andre Citroen in Paris.
The team from the Ruhr, which had recovered from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006, managed to win league titles in 2011 and 2012, prompting talk around Europe of parity in the Bundesliga and a duel that could last for years.
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